You Have a Server with a 5O0GB Amazon EBS Data

question 920

Multiple Choice

You have a server with a 5O0GB Amazon EBS data volume. The volume is 80% full. You need to back up the volume at regular intervals and be able to re-create the volume in a new Availability Zone in the shortest time possible. All applications using the volume can be paused for a period of a few minutes with no discernible user impact. Which of the following backup methods will best fulfill your requirements?

• A) Take periodic snapshots of the EBS volume
• B) Use a third party Incremental backup application to back up to Amazon Glacier
• C) Periodically back up all data to a single compressed archive and archive to Amazon S3 using a parallelized multi-part upload
• D) Create another EBS volume in the second Availability Zone attach it to the Amazon EC2 instance, and use a disk manager to mirror me two disks

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